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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Dani Reviews Things is a book blog run by Dani, a UK resident. Our website address is: http://danireviewsthings.com. It is hosted by Tsohost in the UK.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

No contact forms are currently used on this site. However, if used in the future, this policy will be updated.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Some links shown on this site are affiliate links (specifically links to Amazon UK, Audible, Waterstones, and Book Depository). Amazon links use Amazon’s own affiliate tracking and will store a cookie in your browser to track when you click on an Amazon link and purchase an item. You can read Amazon’s privacy policy here. The other sites are tracked using Awin. If you click on a link to Audible, Waterstones or Book Depository, cookies will be stored to see whether you purchase an item. These cookies do not reveal your identity, web use, or other behaviour. They simply allow me to get a tiny amount of money to help keep this blog up an running. You can read Awin’s privacy policy here.

Visiting and surfing on our website is possible without cookies. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You may alter the security settings of your web browser in order to stop your device receiving and storing cookies, to allow receiving and storing cookies from selected websites only, or to be notified before receiving cookies. Please note, however, that these settings may have negative effects on the usability and user guidance of websites and other online services. You may delete cookies stored in your browser at any time. Information stored in such cookies will be removed from your device.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics Dashboard for WP to monitor the location of visitors. Google prohibits the sending of personal information to Google, so this plugin only collects anonymous IP addresses. It also supports opting out of tracking.

Who we share your data with

As we are connected to a number of social networks, there are some social plugins on our websites which you should know about.

Should you wish to avoid connecting to plugins used on our websites, you may install privacy-enhancing browser plugins, such as Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/), NoScript (https://noscript.net/), or DoNotTrackMe (https://www.abine.com/index.html).

Facebook

Facebook is a social network of Facebook Ireland Limited, Hanover Reach, 5-7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland (hereinafter „Facebook“). In our online services, we have included different Facebook plugins (for example, “Like”, “Share”). These are marked with the Facebook logo. Depending on the type of function, additional information may be added (e.g., “Like”, “Recommend”). For a summary of all Facebook plugins, please refer to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

When you enter a page on our website that contains a Facebook plugin, your browser or app will establish a direct connection to Facebook’s servers where the plugin is loaded from. The information that your browser has visited the corresponding page of our online services will be transmitted to Facebook, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not logged into your account. This information (including your IP address) will be sent by your browser directly to a server of Facebook in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged into your Facebook account at the same time, it is also possible to assign the page impression to your Facebook profile. If you click on embedded Facebook buttons and log into your Facebook account (or are already logged in), this information will be sent directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The corresponding information is published on your Facebook profile and in your chronicle/timeline in short form. Facebook can thus collect and store additional usage data. If you want to prevent the transmission and storage of your data and your behaviour on our online services through Facebook, you must log out of your Facebook account before you visit our sites and delete any cookies placed by Facebook. You can also prevent the loading of the Facebook plugins with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the online “Facebook Blocker”.

For more information on your rights and on how Facebook is recording and processing data, please see Facebook’s Data Privacy Policy, which is available at http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ and https://www.facebook.com/help/443483272359009#!/help/340599879348142/.

Twitter

Twitter is a microblogging service of Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (hereinafter “Twitter”). Twitter plugins on our websites are usually marked with Twitter’s logo, which is a little bird.

When you enter a page on our website that contains a Twitter plugin, your browser will directly connect to Twitter’s servers where the plugin is loaded from. The information that you (including your IP address) have visited our online services will be transmitted to Twitter, even if you are not logged into your account. If you are actively using a Twitter plugin, Twitter may even process more data and publish content that you are entering into the dialogue box. This allows Twitter to map the visit of our pages to your user account.

If you want to prevent the assignment of your visit of our websites to Twitter, you must log out of your Twitter account before you visit our site and delete any cookies placed by Twitter.

For more information on your rights and on how Twitter is recording and processing data, please see Twitter’s Privacy Policy which is available here: https://twitter.com/privacy/. You can change your privacy settings in the account settings of your Twitter profile at http://twitter.com/account/settings.

YouTube

If you enter a page on our website which includes a YouTube plugin, your browser will establish a direct connection to the YouTube servers. The information that your browser visited the corresponding page of our online services is transmitted to YouTube, even if you do not have a YouTube account or are not logged into your account. This information is sent directly from your browser to a YouTube server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged into your YouTube account at the same time, it is also possible to map the page to your YouTube account and you would allow YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile.

If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of your data and your behavior on our online services through YouTube, you must log out of your YouTube account before you visit our site and delete any cookies placed by YouTube.

For more information about how YouTube collects and uses your information, please visit https://www.YouTube.com/static?template=privacy_guidelines and Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Data is also sent to social media networks Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Your contact information

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me at dani (at) danireviewsthings (dot) com.

About me

Dani. Twenties. Ask me where I’m from and you’ll get a 10-minute story. Now in London. EdTech consultant. Fae junkie. Lover of YA and NA. Grammar beast. Beta reader and proofreader. Going steady with Coke Zero. Read more here.

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